WfLLAMSEUEGH COLLEGE. 167 
pertaining to royalty obnoxious, the head and 
one arm of the statue were knocked off; it 
now remains quite exposed, and is more and 
more defaced every day. Whether the motto, 
4C Resurgo rege favente/’ inscribed under the 
coat of arms, did or did not help to bring 
upon it its present fate, I cannot pretend to 
say ; as it is, it certainly remains a monument 
of the extinction of monarchial power in 
America. 
The college of William and Mary, as it is 
still called, stands at the opposite end of the 
main street; it is a heavy pile, which bears, 
as Mr. Jefferson, I think, says, a very close 
resemblance to a large brick kilo, excepting 
“ that it has a roof.’" The students were about 
thirty in number when I was there; from 
their appearance one would imagine that the 
seminary ought rather to be termed a gram¬ 
mar school than a college; yet I understand 
the visitors, since the present revolution, find¬ 
ing it full of young boys just learning the ru¬ 
diments of Greek and Latin, a circumstance 
which consequently deterred others more ad¬ 
vanced from going there, dropped the pro¬ 
fessorships for these two languages, and esta¬ 
blished others in their place. The profes¬ 
sorships, as they now stand, are for law, me- 
dccine, natural and moral philsophy, mathe¬ 
matics, and modem languages. The bishop 
